Plex 9 remote API

[anville]

Is there a list of codes like this available for Plex?

I just wrote a small script to run through numbers until I found saw the screen change. But, yeah, a list would be great :-)

[erlendv]

**EDIT:** *This was written before this thread was started, and was merged in to this existing thread. Thus, the question regarding the "*new* way to access" has been answered and sounds really stupid in this context. However, I would still love to get an answer about the second question regarding streaming/transcoding of media.*

I was messing around last night with the HTTP interface to the Plex Media Server via http://localhost:32400 and it looks quite promising. Is this the *new* way to access the media server or is this something left over from XBMC?

Also, I can browse down and find the particular media file I want to play (and it's key), but I can't seem to figure out how to play it. Does anyone know the URL to play a particular piece of media? It was my understanding that Plex would transcode it on-the-fly to the device in question in a format that it could understand. Is it more complicated than an HTTP GET request with the proper format parameters?

I would also like to know about streaming of media through the api. I just asked the same question in another thread (before I found this).

[topherfangio]

I would also like to know about streaming of media through the api. I just asked the same question in another thread (before I found this).

From what I understand, Transcoding requires a special API token only granted by the Plex team. They seem reasonably open to giving an API token to anyone who is truly interested, but I think you need to show them that you're interested by making something that mostly works before you ask them. Basically, have something to show them WHY you require an API key :-)

[cezar]

Is it possible to issue a similar command to navigate to a specific folder, but not to play anything? In other words... From a control system like Crestron, can I send a command that would instantly navigate the Mac Mini in Plex to the Recently Added folder in movies, or to the Music plugin?

Hey Ryan I think I solved your problem I hope it makes since.

**1**: use the "add to favorites and then grab the link from the favorites.xml" trick. (~/Library/Application Support/Plex/userdata/favorite.xml)


ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./video/netflix/,return)
ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./library/sections/1/all/,return)
ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./library/sections/2/all/,return)
ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./video/TheWB/,return)






**2**: make a small script and place favorite portion like below and name it keyboard.xml




ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./library/sections/1/all/,return)
ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./library/sections/2/all/,return)
ActivateWindow(10024,plex://CsM.local./video/TheWB/,return)


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**3**: Place keyboard.xml in ~/Library/Application Support/Plex/keymaps/ make a new folder "keymaps" if you don't have one

**4**: restart plex.app

**5**: give the following command

http://csm.local:32400/system/players/CsM.local/application/sendKey?code=65

"65" corresponds to [ASCII](http://www.ascii.cl/) capital letter numbering .........in keyboard.xml above
"66" corresponds to ASCII capital letter numbering.........................


I hope it helps. It's my first post in attempting to help out.

P.S. Thanks to all the plex team for their hard work and everyone else that makes this place great community


Thanks to Martin this works again

[ryanwillden_gmail.com]

Thanks Cezar. I’ll give that a shot. I’d really like to be able to navigate to the actual folders through the home screen, but maybe this will give me the same result.



Thanks again.

[jam]

Just a note - the “codes” discussed above are just ASCII characters. Google them While this may be suitable for personal use, I’d advise against using SendKey commands in anything you plan on releasing to the public. This command simulates a physical key press, and as such is subject to the commands stored in the user’s keymap file (something cezar is making use of above).

[ryanwillden_gmail.com]

Is there a native application command that you can issue to navigate to the movies, or music folder that is not dependent upon keymaps? I’m not worried about sending keyboard commands, I’m already doing that. I just need to be able to send navigational commands to make it more intuitive from a control system. Having to use up and down arrows in a control system to navigate is slightly clunky…

[rverstappen]

Versioning:



It would probably make sense to have a version request in the remote API, for future compatibility. That way, control apps can work with multiple versions of Plex rather than having to be released/maintained as multiple separate versions itself.



Cheers,

Ron

[topherfangio]

There is a version attribute passed in the header parameters of the response:

<br />
Content-Type	text/xml;charset=utf-8<br />
Content-Length	405<br />
X-Plex-Protocol	1.0<br />

[Mus20]

Got it working in CommandFusion today. I had to add carriage return (the "\x0D") to the new line ("\x0A"). Eg. the following is to send the "Pause" command:
"GET /system/players//playback/pause HTTP/1.1\x0D\x0AHost: :32400\x0D\x0A\x0D\x0A "

You ought to be able to create an AppleScript that starts Plex. I'm gonna try that next. [See http://applescript.tv/linktrigger/].

Alternatively, or as a backup, if you have a dedicated PlexMini, just set Plex as a startup item, and set that computer to restart every day at 4AM (or whenever suits your schedule.)

Anyone working with CommandFusion or other external systems figure out how to get the input text field popup keyboard to work within plex? I tried a few command values but none worked. I have a feeling that the send String command isn't the correct application to be using here. This is what I thought it would be : 'GET /system/players//application/sendString?text=[inputval] HTTP/1.1\x0D\x0AHost: :32400\x0D\x0A\x0D\x0A " with a serial join of 1, but i'm not able to get it to show in plex. Any suggestions?

[ryanwillden_gmail.com]

Can someone give me a brief idea how to write a script like the one Cezar recommended above? I’ve tried copying and pasting the above text (with the proper fields edited to reflect my player and server, etc) into a text file in text editor and saving it as an .xml file, but it doesn’t work for some reason.



Thanks

[PeteBest]

Anyone know the http root folder location for the media server yet? Need to update my ajax script for Plex 9, but getting some problems with cross scripting because the media server is on a different port to the macs apache server. Would be a lot easier if I could just copy my code to the media servers web root and run it directly from there… Cheers!

[topherfangio]

Anyone know the http root folder location for the media server yet?

Nope, but you can do what I did: drop your HTML file in /Applications/Plex.app/Contents/Resources/Plex/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/Resources/Graphics

Then, you can reach your site by going to http://localhost:32400/:/resources/my_file.html

This gets around the Cross Site restrictions as long as you use localhost:32400 in your requests. Alternatively, you could use 127.0.0.1 in both instead of localhost.

[PeteBest]

Top man!!! Thanks a lot Topher

[cjbottaro]

Can the Playback Controller be expanded to include commands for:



[list]

[]select audio track

[]select subtitle track

[]select playback size

[]volume control

next/previous chapter

[/list]



Thanks.

[iveiga]

I am new on Plex, I’m sorry if it has been discussed yet.



Could someone give me an idea if is possible to get small thumbnails from PMS? like; http://ServerIP:32400/library/metadata/1014/thumb?t=1304462592

It returns heavy jpegs and I’d like to fill up and iPad IOS app screen with all Movies from my database.



The main idea is to get thumbs from metadata like; http://ServerIP:32400/system/players/ServerIP/application/screenshot?width=480&height=270&quality=75



Thanks



Ilton

[BrendanG]

Any chance the pause command of the playback controller could be changed to a distinct pause command as in my current testing it seems to be a pause/unpause toggle. Or maybe we need a new command instead. It would be quite useful when interfacing with external systems, say for instance I want the current video to pause when my doorbell rings.



Loving the progress with Plex 9 and now have 3 LG televisions (although only one with the Smart TV functionality).



Thanks,

Brendan

[iveiga]

Hi



I am writing an iOS application to play my iTunes Playslists in Plex. I am doing this command



To find out Playlists; http://PlexIp:32400/music/iTunes/Playlists/

To find out Musics in a specific playlist; http://PlexIp:32400/music/iTunes/Playlists/7C83EDF4967317C2.pls

To starting play the first music on playlist above; http://PlexIp:32400/system/players/PlexIp/application/playMedia?path=http://PlexIp:32400/music/iTunes/Playlists/7C83EDF4967317C2.pls&key=FirstMusicFile



My question is how to play it continuously or random as I can do on iTunes. I appreciate any help on it.



Best.

[portreathbeach]

In your iOS app you are writing, how are you sending the codes to Plex? Are you sending the API calls to the router? Is there any sample code for this anywhere

[rverstappen]

Here are some other requests for the remote player control API:

• fullScreen (plus, for completeness: nonFullScreen, toggleFullScreen)
  
• raiseAppToFront
  
  
  
  I think these commands are self-explanatory. With these commands, it wouldn’t be necessary to use another app (VNC/RemoteBuddy/etc.) to reset Plex for proper viewing.
  
  
  
  Cheers!
  
  Ron